Real possibilities: Don Wakamatsu, 48

Nuccio DiNuzzo, Chicago Tribune

Maybe a sleeper candidate, but he has managerial experience with the Mariners and is now the bench coach for John Farrell with the Blue Jays (for the connection part, Farrell is the former pitching coach with the Red Sox, a former Indian and beloved by Epstein).

Maybe a sleeper candidate, but he has managerial experience with the Mariners and is now the bench coach for John Farrell with the Blue Jays (for the connection part, Farrell is the former pitching coach with the Red Sox, a former Indian and beloved by Epstein). (Nuccio DiNuzzo, Chicago Tribune)

Maybe a sleeper candidate, but he has managerial experience with the Mariners and is now the bench coach for John Farrell with the Blue Jays (for the connection part, Farrell is the former pitching coach with the Red Sox, a former Indian and beloved by Epstein).